Members Anson Posted June 27, 2002 Members Share Posted June 27, 2002 Try http://garageband.com It works because everyone has to review other people's work before they're allowed to upload their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Brian Marshall Posted June 29, 2002 Members Share Posted June 29, 2002 YEAH, BUT THEY MAKE YOU USE REAL PLAYER WHICH {censored}S UP EVERY COMPUTER I EVER INSTALL IT ON, AND TO GET IT ALL THE WAY OFF YOU HAVE TO REINSTALL YOUR OS. DONT UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE USES THAT PILE OF {censored} PROGRAM. bRIAN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SomeGuyNamedRob Posted June 29, 2002 Members Share Posted June 29, 2002 Originally posted by Brian Marshall YEAH, BUT THEY MAKE YOU USE REAL PLAYER WHICH {censored}S UP EVERY COMPUTER I EVER INSTALL IT ON, AND TO GET IT ALL THE WAY OFF YOU HAVE TO REINSTALL YOUR OS. DONT UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE USES THAT PILE OF {censored} PROGRAM.bRIAN What POS OS do you use? Or computer for that matter if Real Audio screws it up? Real audio is great for being able to squeeze the most amount of sound quality out of a connection. So someone who's on a 56k dialup won't have to suffer with a terrible sound source to listen to. As for uninstalling - open Control Panel, use the remove program utility, and Real Player is gone. If your computer can't handle it, get a better one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike Fresh Posted June 29, 2002 Members Share Posted June 29, 2002 real player does take alot longer to load than windows media or winamp... i dont personally like it, but im on broadban anyways, so i dont worry about sound issues... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anson Posted June 30, 2002 Author Members Share Posted June 30, 2002 Originally posted by Brian Marshall YEAH, BUT THEY MAKE YOU USE REAL PLAYER WHICH {censored}S UP EVERY COMPUTER I EVER INSTALL IT ON, AND TO GET IT ALL THE WAY OFF YOU HAVE TO REINSTALL YOUR OS. DONT UNDERSTAND WHY ANYONE USES THAT PILE OF {censored} PROGRAM.bRIAN I don't like Real Player either, but it does the job and it's not a big problem for most people to use. Just make sure you pay attention when you're installing it, otherwise it will put a bunch of crap on your computer you probably don't want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratKat Posted June 30, 2002 Members Share Posted June 30, 2002 here is the problem with real player. IF you have several types of players on your system your system wants to know what the default player is. If you set it to real player then later change your mind and reset it to something else the real player program doesnt like it. Players tend to associate themselves with certain dll files and hold onto them as if they owned them. Then when another program tries to use that public dll it cant. Another thing that real player tends to do is to take with it certain dll files from DIRECT X and ACTIVE X directories when its deleted. Ive run accross this many times with guys always installing different games and viewers/players on this PC i use at work. And almost every time before a problem came up someone was screwing with either deleting real player or installing a newer version of it. Alot of times GAMES themselves attach to dll's and take possession of them. Even to the point of moving them from the normal public directory they reside in and placing them in the game directory. Then if the user removes the game by dragging the folder to the waiste bin the dll files go with it. And if you use the remove program option it WONT move that dll back to the correct directory when it deletes the folder. Of course, alot of programs out there do this as trying to make your system work for their software and not for others. Its a proprietary thing they want to ram down your throat. As long as you use their product as the main entity for that player/viewer there is no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MedicTJ Posted June 30, 2002 Members Share Posted June 30, 2002 I've got MusicMatch and I bought the upgrade WAY back when...and get free upgrades for life. I went ahead and downloaded Real Player. And my computer tanked. Big time. I couldn't even run scandisk because that program was tying up everything else on my hard drive. Somehow. I don't know how. But it was a nightmare. And I'll never trust that program again. Too bad they don't support MMJB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anson Posted June 30, 2002 Author Members Share Posted June 30, 2002 These kind of problems haven't always existed with Real Player have they? I'm thinking you could search the net for one of the early versions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StratKat Posted June 30, 2002 Members Share Posted June 30, 2002 No, and to be honest some problems may be related to other things using the dll files i mentioned. Games are the biggest culprits sometimes. Somehow they attach or take ownership of some dll files as if they were part of the game. Then when you delete the game the dll files that should stay on the computer get removed also. But i have myself installed real player on my own system at work when everything was fine prior, and then had problems. But is that real players fault? Or perhaps one of the other players that was the primary program for playing files had done the same thing. That i dojt know because we change this PC at work im on all the time. I know that on my dads PC we installed real player and then quicktime quit working properly for video. He also has some generic non MS player that got screwed when i removed real player. So thats a big part of what im saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SomeGuyNamedRob Posted July 1, 2002 Members Share Posted July 1, 2002 Originally posted by StratKat No, and to be honest some problems may be related to other things using the dll files i mentioned. Games are the biggest culprits sometimes. Somehow they attach or take ownership of some dll files as if they were part of the game. Then when you delete the game the dll files that should stay on the computer get removed also. But i have myself installed real player on my own system at work when everything was fine prior, and then had problems. But is that real players fault? Or perhaps one of the other players that was the primary program for playing files had done the same thing. That i dojt know because we change this PC at work im on all the time.I know that on my dads PC we installed real player and then quicktime quit working properly for video. He also has some generic non MS player that got screwed when i removed real player. So thats a big part of what im saying. I think a lot of it is Microsoft's crappy system of automatically assigning ownership of new files to the most recently installed application. That said, I always choose custom installs and assign file types myself before running the programs. Haven't had a problem yet. I have Musicmatch, Real Audio, Winamp, Quicktime, and MS Media player, and not a conflict between them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BryanMichael Posted July 1, 2002 Members Share Posted July 1, 2002 Real Player is spyware-plain and simple.I have it-but I hate it. peace,Bryan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SomeGuyNamedRob Posted July 2, 2002 Members Share Posted July 2, 2002 Originally posted by BryanMichael Real Player is spyware-plain and simple.I have it-but I hate it.peace,Bryan Spyware how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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